A lie conceals the truth. And ugly but hidden truths never have a chance of being acknowledged, addressed, and ultimately ameliorated.
Because of this simple truism, one of the greatest lies of our age—that violence committed in the name of Islam has nothing to do with Islam—has made an intrinsically weak Islam the scourge of the modern world, with no signs of relief on the horizon.
One of the latest manifestations of this lie took place in Pakistan. On Easter Sunday, March 27, a suicide bombing took place near the children rides of a public park, where Christians were congregated and celebrating the resurrection of their Lord. At least 74 people—mostly Christian women and children—were killed and nearly 400 injured. “There was human flesh on the walls of our house,” recalled a witness.
Who—or what—was responsible for this assault? “We claim responsibility for the attack on Christians as they were celebrating Easter,” said Jamaatul Ahraar, a splinter group of the Taliban. In a media statement, the group said it had “deliberately targeted the Christian community,” adding that “we had been waiting for this occasion.”
The Taliban and its affiliates are not alone. Click here, here, here, here, and here, for numerous examples of similarly lethal attacks on Christians celebrating Christmas or Easter by other Islamic groups and individuals around the world who also “had been waiting for this occasion.” Even “the terror cell that struck in Brussels [last month, killing 34] was planning to massacre worshippers at Easter church services across Europe, including Britain, intelligence chiefs believe.”
Still, connecting the dots and understanding what binds all Islamic terrorist groups is a big no-no for the so-called mainstream media. The problem, we will be told, is the “Taliban,” which “has nothing to do with Islam.” Rather, it’s a finite, temporal, localized problem: defeat it, and the problem vanishes.
Meanwhile, about 5,000 miles west of Taliban territory, in Nigeria, Christians are also under attack. Indeed, according to a new report, since 2000, some 12,000 Christians have been slaughtered for their faith and 13,000 churches destroyed. Just last month, over 500 Christians were butchered.
According to the official narrative, something called “Boko Haram” is responsible. This is another group that defines itself exclusively according to Islam; another group that habitually bombs churches during Christmas and Easter; and another group that, we are told, “has nothing to do with Islam,” but rather is a finite, temporal, localized problem: defeat it, and the problem vanishes.
About 5,000 miles west of Nigeria, in the U.S., Americans were told that something called “al-Qaeda” attacked and killed 3,000 of their countrymen on 9/11; defeating that finite group would cease the terror. Its leader, Osama bin Laden, was killed, and victory loudly proclaimed—except that an even more savage manifestation, this time called the “Islamic State” (it too “has nothing to do with Islam”) came on the scene and has gone further than al-Qaeda could’ve ever dreamed, in great part thanks to the Obama administration.
It gets worse. The problem is not only that the media and decision-makers refuse to connect the dots and insist on treating each of the aforementioned groups as disparate, finite groups with different motivations—none of which has to do with Islam. The problem is that regular Muslims who are not called “Taliban,” “Boko Haram,” “al-Qaeda,” “ISIS,” ad infinitum commit similar acts, and much more frequently, though this is rarely ever mentioned by the MSM.
Thus, although the “Taliban” was behind the recent Easter Day massacre, it is everyday Muslims who discriminate against, persecute, enslave, rape and sometimes murder Christians every day in Pakistan (click here for a typical month); it was everyday Muslims who burned a young Christian couple alive due to unsubstantiated rumors that they had insulted Muhammad.
Those who slaughtered 500 Christians last month in Nigeria were not “Boko Haram” but rather un-affiliated (but Muslim) herdsmen. Likewise, “Northern Muslim political and religious elite are also major actors of targeted violence towards the Christian minority.”
Although ISIS claimed the Brussels attack, it is everyday Muslims who ban, burn, bomb, and urinate on Christian churches, and who, as in Pakistan and other Muslim majority nations, target non-Muslim European women for rape on the basis that they are subhuman “infidels.”
This is the real issue. While the media may name the terrorist groups responsible for especially spectacular attacks—followed by the customary admonitions that they “have nothing to do with Islam”—few dare acknowledge that Muslims in general engage in similar acts of violence and intolerance against non-Muslims. According to a recent study, Muslims —of all races, nationalities, languages, and socio-political and economic circumstances, hardly just “terror groups”—are responsible for persecuting Christians in 41 of the 50 worst nations to be Christian in… Keep reading

Jaladhi says
Is there any doubt to ak this question?? It’s Islam all the way that breeds terrorism. Islam is a religion of terror. Remove terror from Islam and Islam disappears from this planet!
john spielman says
agree; as terror can no more removed from islam without destroying it, than soiled toilet paper be separated from that which soiled it!
Christianblood says
Dear Raymond Ibrahim, there can be no ISIS without islam and no islam without ISIS. Islam is ISIS and ISIS is islam.
Bill says
It is not Islam that breeds this terrorism. It is economic injustice and global warming. Just ask Pope Francis. He has this all figured out for you.
Jay Boo says
Who is to blame?
Pope Francis should take a moment away from kissing feet and read this article to get a Muslim perspective.
“We claim responsibility for the attack on Christians as they were celebrating Easter,”
Jay Boo says
For the Chrislam appeasers of the (Howl at the Moon) cult
I offer this link
5 minute overview review of the Twilight Zone Episode
The Howling Man
jihad3tracker says
THANK YOU, JAY, FOR THIS CONTRIBUTION ! ! !
A request, if you have the time, ability, and motivation: remember the classic Twilight Zone episode in which air travel passenger William Shatner sees a mysterious primitive anthropoid creature riding on one wing of a flight, when Shatner peers out the tiny window of a DC-4 or whatever the model was?
Can you insert the head of Muhammad (which Bosch Fawstin drew as a winning entry in Pam & Robert’s cartoon contest) onto the shoulders of the anthropoid creature? Now THAT would be a top notch contender for a “The Prophet Goes to Hollywood” award in 21st Century counter-jihad.
Jay Boo says
I think you missed the point of this particular link JW
Jay Boo says
This episode begins by giving the viewer a misleading stereotype view of devout Christian fanatics and we assume that the monks are wackos. But the do-gooder know it all comes to the recue before knowing all the facts.
Jay Boo says
Note: The Twilight Zone link has a reviewer making (technical comments) as well as summarizing plot. I was unable to find just a trailer since it is a TV episode and old.
mortimer says
THE BIG LIE in question is the theory that the there is a pacifist version of Islam that only the Western elites know about.
Western elites are religiously illiterate and unconsciously accept ‘RADICAL RELIGIOUS RELATIVISM’ which claims that ‘all religions teach basically the same thing’. Radical religious relativism self-refutes because it uniquely claims to be superior and distinct from other religious claims, thus refuting that all religious claims are basically the same.
Mainstream Sunnite Islam (or the ‘consensus’ of Islam) claims that jihad is the main pillar of Islam. Jihadism is a unique claim of Islam that is not found in other faiths. Western elites have not studied Islam to any degree (if at all) and so they are unqualified to make comments, let alone policy regarding Islam.
Western elites are CULPABLY NEGLIGENT regarding this gaping LACUNA OF IGNORANCE regarding the biggest terrorism threat facing us.
For this CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE, Robert Spencer is correct in saying Western elites should be fired and replaced by people who have studied the Islamic source texts.
mortimer says
Correction: For this CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE, RAYMOND IBRAHIM is correct in saying Western elites should be fired and replaced by people who have studied the Islamic source texts.
Walter Sieruk says
The jihadists ISIS in their mad Islamic quest to establish a caliphate, with all the cruel, brutal and murdering violence that is part of it, will not respond the reason. For the Muslim fanatics who compose ISIS cannot understand logic, nor do they care about reason. Those jihadists of ISIS in their irrational unquestioning blind Islamic faith have and leave no room for reason. In this unreasoning blind Islamic drive the jihadist/Muslims who make up ISIS are a reminder of what Benjamin Franklin had printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK. Which is “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
Angemon says
Ah, a trick question. And a very good one to tell newbies from more knowledgeable people.
mortimer says
RAYMOND IBRAHIM has a superb question: What explains the fact that ORDINARY MUSLIMS unaffiliated with terrorist groups can take the law into their own hands and commit atrocities against Christians, as well as atheists, Hindus, and apostates from Islam?
What doctrine within Islam gives ORDINARY MUSLIMS the right to take the law into their own hands?
If journalists, politicians, Western church leaders and rabbis would ask the preceding question, they would immediately find the answer! It’s all available on the internet…so they have no excuse for not knowing.
Sandy Jack says
Was born and brought up in a poor an violent area of intercity .Was robed and assaulted an way to store to get a penny for a returned pop bottle .When I broke bottle in Face of 1 Bully and on the head of another I never had any problems with them again only with police as I was a bad boy to fight them, the police thought I should have maybe made a compromise with them but I chose to smash there faces and took my Punishment . Same today ,they burn 12,000 Church we burn 13,000 Mosques ,they got the message many yrs. ago and they will today if they get equal treatment plus 1 .
Indioviejo says
Only armed confrontation can reverse the Islamization of the West. ISLAM is a Totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religious cult.
mortimer says
Indioviejo wrote: “armed confrontation”
Strongly disagree, because an ideology can only be defeated intellectually. The terrorists will continue until the ideology of political Islam is discredited, debunked and disowned by Muslims. That is being to occur.
mortimer says
correction: “That is BEGINNING to occur.”
ECAW says
Good job Churchill and Roosevelt didn’t agree with you Mortimer.
TheOldOligarch says
I strongly disagree with your disagreement. We all know that Islam is unique among religions for it’s distinct political character, which is arguably the defining feature of it. As such, defeating it will be far more akin to defeating Nazism. Muslims do not care about argumentation, or about the patently ridiculous claims in the Qur’an, they don’t care that we can now prove that the Qur’an is little more than badly plagiarized Jewish, Christian, and pagan material, they aren’t impressed with the scientific arguments of atheists. The main proof of the legitimacy of Islam has always been conquest, and the subjugation and humiliation of the unbelievers. Allah’s existence and supremacy as a deity is established by the success and hegemony of the Muslim umma in this world. Islam has always been the ‘might makes right’ religion. If the Islamic State were utterly and contemptuously wiped from the face of the world by the United States tomorrow, that would cause more soul searching among Muslims about whether their religion is true or not than any amount of scientific or historical proof that the Qur’an is just a jumbled mess of preexisting, uninspired material.
sham says
islam says Keep forgiveness:
41: 34. The good deed and the evil deed cannot be equal. Repel (the evil) with one which is better (i.e. Allâh ordered the faithful believers to be patient at the time of anger, and to excuse those who treat them badly), then verily! he, between whom and you there was enmity, (will become) as though he was a close friend.
42: 37. And those who avoid the greater sins, and Al-Fawâhish (illegal sexual intercourse, etc.), and when they are angry, they forgive
42: 40. The recompense for an evil is an evil like thereof, but whoever forgives and makes reconciliation, his reward is due from Allâh. Verily, He likes not the Zâlimûn (oppressors, polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.).
45: 14. Say (O Muhammad SAW) to the believers to forgive those who (harm them and) hope not for the Days of Allâh (i.e. His Recompense), that He may recompense people according to what they have earned (i.e. to punish these disbelievers, who harm the believers).
3: 134. Those who spend [in Allâh’s Cause – deeds of charity, alms, etc.] in prosperity and in adversity, who repress anger, and who pardon men; verily, Allâh loves Al-Muhsinûn (the good doers).
3: 159. And by the Mercy of Allâh, you dealt with them gently. And had you been severe and harsh hearted, they would have broken away from about you; so pass over (their faults), and ask (Allâh’s) Forgiveness for them; and consult them in the affairs. Then when you have taken a decision, put your trust in Allâh, certainly, Allâh loves those who put their trust (in Him).
6: 34. Verily, (many) Messengers were denied before you (O Muhammad SAW), but with patience they bore the denial, and they were hurt, till Our Help reached them, and none can alter the Words (Decisions) of Allâh. Surely there has reached you the information (news) about the Messengers (before you).
Dawud :: Book 41 : Hadith 4759
Narrated Mu’adh ibn Jabal:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: if anyone suppresses anger when he is in a position to give vent to it, Allah, the Exalted, will call him on the Day of Resurrection over the heads of all creatures, and ask him to choose any of the bright and large eyed maidens he wishes.
isis promote violence……..
Angemon says
Islam says to attack people because of their religion:
quran 9:29-31
Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.
The Jews say, “Ezra is the son of Allah “; and the Christians say, “The Messiah is the son of Allah .” That is their statement from their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved [before them]. May Allah destroy them; how are they deluded?
They have taken their scholars and monks as lords besides Allah , and [also] the Messiah, the son of Mary. And they were not commanded except to worship one God; there is no deity except Him. Exalted is He above whatever they associate with Him.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 84, Number 59:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
When the Prophet died and Abu Bakr became his successor and some of the Arabs reverted to disbelief, ‘Umar said, “O Abu Bakr! How can you fight these people although Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, ‘and whoever said, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’, Allah will save his property and his life from me, unless (he does something for which he receives legal punishment) justly, and his account will be with Allah?’ “Abu Bakr said, “By Allah! I will fight whoever differentiates between prayers and Zakat as Zakat is the right to be taken from property (according to Allah’s Orders). By Allah! If they refused to pay me even a kid they used to pay to Allah’s Apostle, I would fight with them for withholding it.” ‘Umar said, “By Allah: It was nothing, but I noticed that Allah opened Abu Bakr’s chest towards the decision to fight, therefore I realized that his decision was right.”
Sahih Muslim, Book 1, Hadith 33
It has been narrated on the authority of Abdullah b. ‘Umar that the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish prayer, and pay Zakat and if they do it, their blood and property are guaranteed protection on my behalf except when justified by law, and their affairs rest with Allah.
ISIS justifies its actions using islamic texts and traditions…
gravenimage says
More from sham:
islam says Keep forgiveness:
41: 34. The good deed and the evil deed cannot be equal. Repel (the evil) with one which is better (i.e. Allâh ordered the faithful believers to be patient at the time of anger, and to excuse those who treat them badly), then verily! he, between whom and you there was enmity, (will become) as though he was a close friend.
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Of course, sham will not tell that those “good deeds” involve slaughtering Infidels.
More:
42: 37. And those who avoid the greater sins, and Al-Fawâhish (illegal sexual intercourse, etc.), and when they are angry, they forgive
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We see that “forgiveness’ everyday as Muslims butcher Infidels all over the world.
And “illegal sexual intercourse” includes such matters as women talking to unrelated men. But Muslims marrying up to four wives–including children–and raping Infidels and keeping sex slaves is perfectly “chaste”.
More:
42: 40. The recompense for an evil is an evil like thereof, but whoever forgives and makes reconciliation, his reward is due from Allâh. Verily, He likes not the Zâlimûn (oppressors, polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.).
45: 14. Say (O Muhammad SAW) to the believers to forgive those who (harm them and) hope not for the Days of Allâh (i.e. His Recompense), that He may recompense people according to what they have earned (i.e. to punish these disbelievers, who harm the believers).
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Notice that simply being a “polytheist” (which includes Christians, as Muslims see it) or any kind of disbeliever is grounds for violence from Mohammedans.
More:
3: 134. Those who spend [in Allâh’s Cause – deeds of charity, alms, etc.] in prosperity and in adversity, who repress anger, and who pardon men; verily, Allâh loves Al-Muhsinûn (the good doers).
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Actually, “Allah’s cause” usually describes violent Jihad–so this is Muslims funding terrorism.
More:
3: 159. And by the Mercy of Allâh, you dealt with them gently. And had you been severe and harsh hearted, they would have broken away from about you; so pass over (their faults), and ask (Allâh’s) Forgiveness for them; and consult them in the affairs. Then when you have taken a decision, put your trust in Allâh, certainly, Allâh loves those who put their trust (in Him).
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Well, that sounds lovely. Unfortunately, sham does not post the next Ayat:
Qur’an 3:161:
“It is not [attributable] to any prophet that he would act unfaithfully [in regard to war booty]. And whoever betrays, [taking unlawfully], will come with what he took on the Day of Resurrection…”
In other words, this is just telling Muslim not to take from war booty. Robbing and murdering Infidels is perfectly fine, though.
More:
Narrated Mu’adh ibn Jabal:
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: if anyone suppresses anger when he is in a position to give vent to it, Allah, the Exalted, will call him on the Day of Resurrection over the heads of all creatures, and ask him to choose any of the bright and large eyed maidens he wishes.
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So if Muslims suppress their rage, they will be rewarded with rape victims…
More:
isis promote violence……..
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Islam promotes violence. ISIS is perfectly Islamic–but only a part of the bottomless violence of that foul creed.
wallace says
When there is a rejection of the dhimma, Islam demands that jihad is resumed.
gravenimage says
Raymond Ibrahim: ISIS or Islam — Which Breeds Terrorism?
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Yes–chalking this all up to the terrorist group de jour is absurd. The Taliban, Boko Haram, and Al Shebab are just part of Islam.
The absurd thing is that the same news outlets that acted as though all Jihad was due to Al Qaida are now uncritically doing the same with ISIS. They are all just Islam.
jbt1844 says
In Genesis, written 1400 to 1500 BC, It is noted that Ishmael, patriarch of Islam, and his descendants, “lived in hostility toward all their brothers.” Genesis 25:18 (see also Genesis 16:12). Prophesied then, seems to be true now, some 3500 years later.
SpiritOf1683 says
We can go all the way back to 627 AD or 1453 or 1529, 1683, 1697 as well as 2001 and there is a continuous thread – Islam. And it will only get worse as their numbers continue rising. Heaven help our descendants in 2100, and more to the point, the descendants of religious minorities in Muslim countries..
خَليفة says
Muslims are potatoes.
The Koran is the onions
The Hadith is the leeks
The Sunna is the cream
And of course, Mohammed it the chicken stock
Jihad is Vichyssoise. ( the above ingredients puréed )
You can’t make potatoe soup without potatoes.
patriotliz says
Islam cloaks itself with the term “religion.” Are we supposed to be tolerant of ALL religions? I think not. I think we must discriminate/define what we regard as a “religion.” First ask yourself, do the practitioners of that “religion” make you feel safe? If not, it’s not benign and not a religion and we should treat it just like any other evil ideology, e.g., KKK, Nazism, Communism. Should we be tolerant of a ‘religion’ of neo-Nazis with Hitler as the spiritual leader?… a ‘religion’ with Satan as the spiritual leader? Something our Founding Fathers never thought about….Evil cloaked as a “religion:” https://youtu.be/WIojqsHBWko
خَليفة says
Agreed.
If some cannibals immigrated from down under, would we be tolerant of their religious beliefs? Like eating their dead relatives, or the killing and eating of rivals?
Liberals are hypocrites – they pick and choose what should be tolerated, and they do so for all the wrong reasons.
timo tuomas says
ISIS are true Muslims